The former vice president presents an impassioned argument for American liberalism while tracing his political career, describing his efforts to increase accountability over the FBI and CIA, his service as the ambassador to Japan, and the liberal principles he believes will be essential for the coming years.

A Progressive takes root --
High tide --
The fight for equality --
Lost trust: Vietnam and the Election of 1968 --
Poverty and opportunity --
The battle for a more responsive Senate --
Spies, security, and the rule of law --
Meeting a new Democrat --
Our first year in the White House --
Showing the world a different America --
America in an age of limits --
Hostage crisis --
The Election of 1980 --
Mondale vs. Reagan --
An alliance in Asia --
Looking forward.

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Walter F. Mondale, with David Hage.

Abstract:

The former vice president presents an impassioned argument for American liberalism while tracing his political career, describing his efforts to increase accountability over the FBI and CIA, his service as the ambassador to Japan, and the liberal principles he believes will be essential for the coming years.

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"An illuminating memoir by a notably decent, thoughtful, genuine, likeable and underestimated American leader. Walter Mondale offers a memorable, sometimes surprising account of vanished worlds--a prewar country boyhood, the liberal farmer-labor politics of old Minnesota, a U.S. Senate in which collegiality was not an epithet, with intriguing glimpses of figures like Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy--as well as a fresh and revealing look at life with President Jimmy Carter and Mondale's own campaign for the White House. One cannot read this volume without reflecting on how much our political culture has changed, and by no means entirely for the better." --Michael BeschlossWeiterlesen…

"A Progressive takes root -- High tide -- The fight for equality -- Lost trust: Vietnam and the Election of 1968 -- Poverty and opportunity -- The battle for a more responsive Senate -- Spies, security, and the rule of law -- Meeting a new Democrat -- Our first year in the White House -- Showing the world a different America -- America in an age of limits -- Hostage crisis -- The Election of 1980 -- Mondale vs. Reagan -- An alliance in Asia -- Looking forward."@en

"The former vice president presents an impassioned argument for American liberalism while tracing his political career, describing his efforts to increase accountability over the FBI and CIA, his service as the ambassador to Japan, and the liberal principles he believes will be essential for the coming years."@en